The check reads passage by passage
The check that decides whether your manuscript is ready had been holding back writing that was never the problem. It read everything you had written as one piece and answered in one word — so it could tell you there was nothing real about you in a passage while, in the same breath, noting the real thing you had put there. It reads passage by passage now, and the grounds it can hold you back on are narrower: writing that isn't a genuine attempt, rather than writing it merely finds ordinary.
Nothing required, and what's already good
The list under a held manuscript used to be only what was wrong with it. It opens with what is already there and working, and at the bottom there is a line to tap if you think the reading is simply mistaken. Those come to us.
You're told when a person publishes you
And when someone here publishes your manuscript by hand, you are told. Before, it just quietly went live, and you found out by chance — if at all.
Tell us when a check was wrong
Sometimes the checks are simply wrong about you. Under a section that's been held back — and under a mark against one of your messages — there's now a line you can tap to say so, and the passage goes to a person to read properly. If we agree, the mark comes off and the manuscript goes on its way.
The reading closes its gaps
A manuscript should read the way it was written. Where a section had been left empty, the reading opened a stretch of nothing between the paragraphs — a pause the author never put there. The page closes up behind them now, and a section you've fixed lets go of its mark instead of keeping a green stripe down the margin for the rest of the evening.
Smaller things, out of the way
A handful of smaller things that had been getting in the way, too. Your card shows its code the moment it unlocks, without a reload. A gift you've already opened stays opened. The practice manuscript keeps enough room to be read on a short screen, the name you've typed in full stops being offered back to you, and the sign-in code from your email now lands where you're actually signing in.